Long v. State

Minor W. Millwee, Justice.

Appellant, Clarence Long, was charged with and convicted of murder in the first degree for the killing of Henry Allen; the jury fixed his punishment at life imprisonment. At the conclusion of all the testimony, appellant by proper motions challenged the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain a verdict of guilty of murder in either the first or second degree or manslaughter. It is now insisted that the state failed to prove the malice and premeditation on the part of appellant requisite to a conviction of first degree murder.

The evidence disclosed that on Sunday…